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EP 487: Rethinking Our Tech Mythology

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The tech industry has a central role in shaping our work, our communication, and even our identities. Its mythology is woven into the products and services we use on a daily basis. So understanding how the people leading the tech industry think—how they perceive their own stories and generate their own hype—is a solid step toward making sense of what can seem so nonsensical.

And there is one book I go back to over and over again when I need to make sense of our mythologies of disruption and failure, value and genius—and that's What Tech Calls Thinking by Adrian Daub.

In this episode, I share 3 ideas from that book that help me make sense of the headlines shaping politics, business, and work.

Footnotes:

Find a text version of this episode at whatworks.fyi!

  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (02:00) - What Tech Calls Thinking by Adrian Daub
  • (04:34) - Idea 1: Silicon Valley is a mythology.
  • (08:37) - Idea 2: Gender becomes encoded in all judgments of value.
  • (13:01) - Idea 3: Money does not follow merit, nor vice versa.
  • (16:39) - The Last Word
  • (18:07) - Credits
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The tech industry has a central role in shaping our work, our communication, and even our identities. Its mythology is woven into the products and services we use on a daily basis. So understanding how the people leading the tech industry think—how they perceive their own stories and generate their own hype—is a solid step toward making sense of what can seem so nonsensical.

And there is one book I go back to over and over again when I need to make sense of our mythologies of disruption and failure, value and genius—and that's What Tech Calls Thinking by Adrian Daub.

In this episode, I share 3 ideas from that book that help me make sense of the headlines shaping politics, business, and work.

Footnotes:

Find a text version of this episode at whatworks.fyi!

  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (02:00) - What Tech Calls Thinking by Adrian Daub
  • (04:34) - Idea 1: Silicon Valley is a mythology.
  • (08:37) - Idea 2: Gender becomes encoded in all judgments of value.
  • (13:01) - Idea 3: Money does not follow merit, nor vice versa.
  • (16:39) - The Last Word
  • (18:07) - Credits
★ Support this podcast ★
  continue reading

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